swear
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Celebrity fans include Maya Jama, who shares her clinic sessions, and actress Hailey Bieber, who told Time magazine: "I swear by them."
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
"Such is our word, such is our oath. I swear!"
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
But some workers swear by mouse docks, like one made by Tech8 USA, that keep cursors moving.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
To start things off, here are three personal-finance principles that I’ve come to swear by through my own wins and losses.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026
‘I need you -to swear something,’ said Fa.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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An NBA player swears it brought him good luck after devouring it the night before a big game.
From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026
The U.S. will pick up another South American ally on Tuesday when Peru swears in center-right Keiko Fujimori as president.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
“Oh, I have a friend who does that,” “Oh, my cousin swears by it,” I began hearing from people as soon as I started looking for interviewees.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
Strickland, who is Hilton’s campaign chair, swears that he and his former colleagues didn’t plan to take their crusade statewide, but “when you do a great job, other opportunities present themselves.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2026
“Branch swears we are only three days from Winterfell,” Ser Richard Horpe told the king that night after the cold count.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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And they waxed wroth against the High Priestess and said, Didst thou not sware, even unto seven times, that thou wouldst not call a snap election?
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 9, 2017
Then they ha'e call'd her, Lady Maisry,105 And she sware by the moon, That she saw not him, young Hunting, Sin' yesterday at noon.
From English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) by Various
And Moses declares the same: “The Lord thy God is a merciful God: he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them.”
From True Christianity by Johann Arndt
At any rate," he said, more gently, "she cannot break the mighty oath she sware.
From Ghetto Tragedies by Israel Zangwill
Is love, that thou sware to me aye and so often, To live too feeble or—how?—doth it soften And weaken away and—to die?—why die?—
From Accolon of Gaul with Other Poems by Madison Julius Cawein
Mr. Johnson recounts upbraiding Jobs at one point after the CEO swore at and insulted his retail team during a meeting; he made his outspoken boss promise never to do it again.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
"Today we renew the sacred oath that we first swore in their names a quarter of a century ago," Trump said.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
Regan told investigators and The Times that he swore at Bartholow but denied that he physically intimidated her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
"Today we renew the sacred oath that we first swore in their names a quarter of a century ago. We will never, ever forget. That's why we fight today," Trump said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
“My pa always swore by a poultice of brown sugar and cobwebs—though where you’d find cobwebs in this bitter cold, I have no idea. Flour paste and brown paper should work fine, too.”
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
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It marked the first time a Quebec premier was sworn in without a representative of the British monarchy present.
From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026
Online sources indicate that the district’s school police department currently has about 270 sworn officers, 61 non-sworn safety officers and 40 civilian staff members.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
A few days later, with Ms. Graham sworn in, President Trump endorsed her in a race in which she hadn’t intended to compete.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
"The full transcript – which I have now obtained – confirms the contents of Jane Doe's sworn statement," he said.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
“If I have sworn not to do something—sworn in God’s name—must I keep my word?”
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
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Father and son were grateful, said Matson, swearing him to secrecy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
Kito showed Becerra a picture of the then-congressman swearing him in as a neighborhood council president more than a decade ago.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
"I go, 'Brett, I will go to my grave swearing that it was your voice, it was your cadence, it was words you would use. There was no accent. It was you on the phone.'"
From Barron's ● Jun. 3, 2026
He whined that the singers who pulled out of the state fair are “Third Rate” and promised he would simply headline the event, swearing he is greater than Elvis, even “without a guitar.”
From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2026
He began to see that Grover was directing the slither — not by craning his neck and putting on his blinker and swearing, but simply by glancing, passing, glancing, passing.
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
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